can we have a thread for bad-faith descriptions of poptimism in decade-end coverage?
― maura, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
ig i'm missing sfj now?
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
lol i have seen someone specifically bemoaning the lack of that beck album on any lists though, the internet's a big place
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
sorry you guys aren't going to gaslight me into think anyone still gives a shit about Morning Phase.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
obviously amanda petrusich does
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
it's just part of the in-house style guide
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
I like to kid about being totally out of the musical loop but these lists reveal that I've very successfully (if not entirely intentionally) avoided contemporary music for basically an entire decade. Almost everything I'm at all familiar with is from 2010. Yikes.</old>
― What Would Spoonman Do? (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
her 2019 list has 75 dollar bill on it, which is cool
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
xp you ain't young lunch
petrusich lists making the risible error of treating the 2010s like the 1960s and the readership like idiots. brad's already got this one though thankfully
― imago, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Quietus is always the one where i learn the most:https://thequietus.com/articles/27504-quietus-albums-of-the-year-2019-norman-records
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
whoops, thought this was best of 2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
i actually back the quietus to do a decent decade list tbf, there won't be as much scope for boring wibbly ambient-experimental bollocks as in their eoy lists
― imago, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised if tQ doesn't join in w/ a eod list.
Also, it is my very unscientific opinion that the percentage of "boring wibbly ambient-experimental bollocks" has gone down steadily over the last years?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
Lovely to see Bad Debt get a mention, albeit it's the very essence of a minor record, swamped by the very notion of what's around it and the notion of a decade list of this size.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
agreed ^ that is a VERY strange record on that list
― alpine static, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
did this one get posted? unranked. https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/10/30/aquarium-drunkard-decade-2010-19/this is a great resource
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/100-songs-that-defined-the-2010s
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 7 December 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
wow music is terrible
― 💠 (crüt), Monday, November 18, 2019 6:48 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 💠 (crüt), Saturday, 7 December 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
I think that's a pretty good list in terms of not trying to make critical judgments but just presenting the songs that made a big splash.
― o. nate, Sunday, 8 December 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I like that BB list — it’s a nice mix of personal faves (including unexpectedly recent tracks like Rosalía’s “Malamente”); stuff that’s not my bag but was “important”; and then a few LOL / 🤔 picks like Rebecca Black / “Friday” and Weezer / “Africa.”
― New Car Smell (morrisp), Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
Like, including “Let It Go” and “My Shot” (among some of those other picks) seems genuinely smart.
― New Car Smell (morrisp), Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.normanrecords.com/features/albums-of-the-decade
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Sunday, 15 December 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
I think it's very weird of that Billboard list to include The Weeknd and NOT have the song be "Can't Feel My Face"
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 16 December 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.factmag.com/2019/12/10/the-best-tracks-of-2019/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
I guess this is the best place to ask, so when does our EOY poll nomination thread go up?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
November 2029
― flopson, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
the intro to that fact list is making me insane ... sanctimony ahoy
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
if you're gonna have a list like that you shouldnt be ranking fucking pop smoke & 2019 thug songs ... i feel like the audacity of that demands u pick records that show a deeper reading of genre than this tepid poptimism
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
Sorry that one belonged in the eoy thread not the eod one.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 04:21 (four years ago) link
@JF EOY nominations r open: ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
they chose the wrong 2019 thug song anyway
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
“hot”, not that it matters, forget I said anything
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2010s-favorite-music-releases-staff-picks
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
I like how many of the lists challenge the idea of eoy lists
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 09:11 (four years ago) link
attn emo goons
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/100-best-punk-emo-albums-of-the-2010s/
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
lots of good records presented in a mostly baffling order
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
weird to see a publication fucking with white lung after their singer went full alt-right. they weren't *that* good
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
wait what
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
the white lung trajectory from "good punk band" to "alt-right shill in charge of penthouse, which is now also alt-right" was, from a 2012 vantage point, unexpected!— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) December 12, 2018
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
that's a yikes from me fam
but I mean even putting that aside their placements are way too high imo
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Wait, Penthouse is now alt-right???
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
despite the conor oberst association i really wouldnt have considered phoebe bridgers 'emo' so surprising to see her on that list
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
a lot of what gets counted as part of the emo umbrella is about association tbh
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
Was Elliott Smith emo? If so, what is different about phoebe bridgers which makes her not emo?
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
really liked that tinymixtapes list
― nxd, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
might not be linked here yethttps://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2010s-favorite-100-music-releases-decade
― nxd, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
20 to 11 is ♥
― nxd, Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
― maura, Friday, 20 December 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
That article doesn’t seem particularly damning(?)
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Friday, 20 December 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link